Quotes About Impact

she is still better known than most living movie stars, most world leaders, and most television personalities. The surprise is that she rarely has been taken seriously enough to ask why that is so.

Nor was he around when I finally understood that having a loving and nurturing father made a lifetime of difference. Only after I saw women who were attracted to distant, condescending, even violent men did I begin to understand that having a distant, condescending, even violent father could make those qualities seem inevitable, even feel like home. Because of my father, only kindness felt like home.

we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But

When teachers of randomly selected students are told their students are slow, they become slower; when teachers believe their students are gifted, they become more gifted.

It had taken three murders - Martin Luther King, Jr., and two Kennedys - to leave the country with this choice between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey.

As King ended his speech, I heard Mahalia Jackson call out, "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" And he did begin the "I have a dream" litany from memory, with the crowd calling out to him after each image—Tell it! What would be most remembered had been least planned. I hoped Mrs. Greene heard a woman speak up—and make all the difference.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; A movement is only people moving.

the central concept of self-esteem – the belief that each person counts and can make a difference

When I consider my priorities and the best use of my time, one of the questions I ask myself is What can only I do?

when my choices are fueled by self-focused need, my best work is seldom done.

Any calling to better the world no matter how small is the highest.

No consequence of right action is graver than the consequence of inaction.

Of all the significant things I noted in the world, one significantly stood out, the insignificance of man.

The fact that they are possible or exist is exactly the force behind them itself and they are the manifestation or extension of the force, not the product of the force.

The great are ordinary people who act in a great way.

The most momentous moment is the moment of decision. This calls for proficiency because it makes or destroys only in the extremes.

The way to change the world is changing for the world.

We need those who can violently shake the world in a gentle way, not those who gently shake it in a violent way.

We should only be concerned with being better for the world, not the world being better for us because the former is the way to achieving the latter and the world is already best for us.

Technology is not neutral.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

Un autor î?i stric? opera dac? o public? într-o edi?ie rev?zut?, chiar dac? din punct de vedere poetic a devenit acum mai bun?. Prima impresie e cea hot?râtoare, ?i omul e astfel alc?tuit, încât îl poti convinge de cele mai nemaipomenite lucruri; totul se lipe?te imediat de suflet, dar vai de acela care vrea sa cure?e ?i s? ?tearg? cea a fost lipit.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.